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Fueling anxiety.

Increasing stress.
Using a smartphone for work often means work bleeds into your home and personal life. You feel the pressure to always be on, never out of touch from work. This need to continually check and respond to email can contribute to higher stress levels and
even burnout
.

Increasing stress.

Exacerbating attention deficit disorders.
The constant stream of messages and information from a smartphone can overwhelm the brain and make it impossible to focus attention on any one thing for more than a few minutes without feeling compelled to move on to something else.

Exacerbating attention deficit disorders.

Diminishing your ability to concentrate and think deeply or creatively.
The persistent buzz, ping or beep of your smartphone can distract you from important tasks, slow your work, and interrupt those quiet moments that are so crucial to creativity and problem solving. Instead of ever being alone with our thoughts, we’re now always online and connected.

Diminishing your ability to concentrate and think deeply or creatively.

Disturbing your sleep.
Excessive smartphone use can disrupt your sleep, which can have a serious impact on your overall mental health. It can impact your memory, affect your ability to think clearly, and reduce your cognitive and learning skills.

Disturbing your sleep.

Encouraging self-absorption.
A UK study found that people who spend a lot of time on social media are more likely to display negative personality traits such as
narcissism
. Snapping endless selfies, posting all your thoughts or details about your life can create an unhealthy self-centeredness, distancing you from real-life relationships and making it harder to cope with stress.

Encouraging self-absorption.

there is no specific amount of time spent on your phone, or the frequency you check for updates, or the number of messages you send or receive that indicates an addiction or overuse problem.

Spending a lot of time connected to your phone only becomes a problem when it absorbs so much of your time it causes you to neglect your face-to-face relationships, your work, school, hobbies, or other important things in your life. If you find yourself ignoring friends over lunch to read Facebook updates or compulsively checking your phone in while driving or during school lectures, then it’s time to reassess your smartphone use and strike a healthier balance in your life.

Trouble completing tasks at work or home. Do you find laundry piling up and little food in the house for dinner because you’ve been busy chatting online, texting, or playing video games? Perhaps you find yourself working late more often because you can’t complete your work on time.

Synthetik
revolves around you, an android programmed with human consciousness. You willbe duking it out against legions of robots to get to the top of the Kaida Corporation and stop the activation of the
Heart of Armageddon
,
and thus, the destruction of humanity. If you’d prefer, you face the robots hordes with a friend in co-op mode. But l
ike so many roguelikes before it,
Synthetik
gives you one life and you’ll more than likely lose it with the amount of enemies and ordinance thrown your way.

And yet
, I would say
Synthetik
is also one of the more accessible and player friendly roguelikes out there. Because while the overall challenge is rather high,
Synthetik
allows players to pick and choose a series of
curses
—
modifiers to make the next playthrough more or less difficult. For example, you can forgo
Synthetik’s
active reload system(ejecting spent magazines and reloading), and turn down the base difficulty. Or you can make your robot opponents stronger, faster, hit harder, and put penalties on your own firearms and movement. More
curses
translate to rarer weapons but with potent power-ups to compensate, along with more experience for permanent upgrades to your android’s class type. It’s a very welcome addition to a genre where the word
challenging
is often confused for
punishing
.

Image courtesy Flow Fire Games

Combat is a combination of shooting and movement, and weapons in
Synthetik
come in a variety of pistols, shotguns, machine guns, rocket, and grenade launchers to start. Aiming is a big part of combat, as the circle around your target reticle expands when you move, or fire wildly, reducing your accuracy. Standing still for those precious few seconds and letting off a few measured bursts of fire means more accurate shots and the possibility of a critical hit.